Request to Admit – Not Your Average Discovery Tool

Let’s be honest about it: no one likes written discovery in civil cases. Practitioners and judges are too familiar with the months-long effort that amounts to stacks of paper full of objections and little substantive information. Thus, it is easy to lump all written discovery into one unsavory group. But requests for admissions under MCR 2.312 are different for two key reasons. Admission or Denial First, requests to admit force one party to either admit or deny a fact or conclusion. As MCR 2.312(A) states: “A party may serve on another party a written request for the admission of the truth of...